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Tandy 1100 FD
Name: Tyler Date: June 23, 2003 at 20:25:12 Pacific OS: Dos 3.3/Deskmate CPU/Ram: .
Comment:
I have a Tandy 1100 FD and the Floppy disk drive is dead and I want to replace it. Can i put in a 1.44 mg disk drive or do I have to find one of the old drives that our in it. I have tried opening it but i can't get it open. I have removed all of the apparent screws but it just wont open. Can you give me any help on this old computer.
it's the 21st century, time to upgrade...that tandy is so 20th century...lol
8-10 mhz cpu speed and a whopping 20 meg hard drive
just kidding, whatever floats your boat
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Response Number 2
Name: wawadave Date: June 23, 2003 at 22:57:38 Pacific
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hello if you goto the local good will or salvation army or other thrift stores you will most likely fine a whole working tandy compter for $5.00 or less. since most bios are writen in basic and his tandy most likely has it on there and if he got into advance basic,s he could write his own bios flashes. its the language that bios are still writen in .so the old tandy could be usefull even today.
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Response Number 3
Name: Michael Date: June 24, 2003 at 00:06:40 Pacific
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This might be of some use, I really have no idea how you could open it without seeing it, probably time to run on ebay and grab a little cheap PII if you need another comp in the house, but if you rellly love the Tandy (I still have my 386 laptop), this might help a little bit. http://support.tandy.com/support_computer/doc1/1856.htm
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Response Number 4
Name: Bill McMinn Date: June 24, 2003 at 01:51:21 Pacific
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There was a time that Digital Equipment Corp. made PC's that used the same kind of 3.5 inch floppy drive (the kind with the blue eject button), So if you cannot find a Tandy you can hunt down one of these DEC PC's and strip it of it's floppy drive.
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